Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-09-02
LOCAL BRI.EEs.

ANOtS tShohf3C0 IL oh0 tN'S.NASO
ments of j. ID. Watts and j. d..
Hobbie. & Co.
DR.. James Pcery, of Indian, is
spending as usual his Shay fever"
season on White Top.
DR.. Thos. G. Witten wilt send
two daughters to Martha Washing
ton College this session.
Rev. Charlie Brown will attend
the coming session OF e. and n.
College. He left for that place yes
terday morning.
Quarterly meeting was held at
the Methodist Church here OH last
Saturday and Sunday, Rev. Mr..
Frazier officiating.
Engineer in Charge j. G. Rawn,
has brought his family to Tazcwell
His home is at Five Oaks, about
four miles east of town.
Misses josie and Katie Kelly left
yesterday OIL q .yisitto relatives and
friends, the former to Marion and
the llattcrito Estillville. ~
Mrs. Lavenia Morrison. WHO has
beenI visiting her sisters at this
place during the summer, has re.
turned to her home at Big Mocasin
Gap.
1t is understood that IL new mer-
chantile house, general limo, is TO
be opened at this place on or about
the 18th inst, by a Mr.. Saunders of
Eastern Virginia.
The work on Railroad Avenue is
progressing rapidly. 1t is graded
almost to the junction with the old
road, while that part. nearest main
street is being -macadamized.
One Dcaton, cart driver on the
railroad work near Graham, was kill
ed yesterday. His horse became
frightened, and in running away
dragged him to terrible death.
Major Tyncs has already put in
wheat portion of his town farm,
thus making sure a good harvest.
Progressive farming should mark
the new era in Tazewell's history.
Contractors outfits are still to be
seen occasionally passing down the
limo of the Clinch Valley Railroad.
Mr. Mills force goes over by way
Abingdon, where he has esta blisIi-
ed his depot of supplies.
There will be ON tomorrow even.
ing fruit and musical festival at
the residence of Rev. Joseph Stras,
given blythe Ladies Aid Society
for the benefit of the Methodist
Church. Admission 10 cents. All
invited.
1t is said that Messrs. Hawkins
and son are taking great pride in
tie piece sf- work which they are
executing for Mr. Oscar Thompson.
For Il residence to be one of "IIaw.
kins' best" is to be work of ele
gance indeed. A thing OF beauty
is q JOY forever.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church returns thanks to their friends
for the generous patronage extended
to them, on friday evening; and most
especially to those who by their kind
assistance, recitations, and music,
contributed 80 greatly, to make the
entertainment success.
Twenty Thousand Miles by Land
and Sea- by DIR. R. A. Young. a
new book which will leave the press
in about ten days, can be had OF
Rev. w. L. Richardson, who has
made special arrangements with
the S. M. Pub. House, and whose
orders will be filed at once. First
edition sold in London. Price s1.25
Esquire VIM. o. Yost has perhaps
the cleanest and best kept little
farm in TazewelI. 1t is a pleasure
to look upon it from the NEWS
windows. There was but one thing
ON it that looked shabby-the old
smithy, and that has just been
RACED to the ground, and the foun
dation of something new is rapidly
rising in its place.
= Tie old bank building, belonging
Messrs. Chapman and Anderson,
men whomake q happy combina-
ton of taste and business, is rapid.
~ being made one of the chief orna.